Chapter 24

Ziva was sitting in the conference room at NCIS headquarters. Vance had ordered that Ziva be brought back in, that she spend her time in the NCIS offices, where they all knew she would be protected and then when she and Tony went home there were agents all around them. Ziva sighed, she knew that Tony couldn't like having all these other agents all around them, he couldn't like the fact that Vance was implying they couldn't take care of themselves. Ziva looked up as the door opened and smiled when Abby walked in. When Abby set down some bridal magazines and a notebook in front of her, as well as a binder and some scissors, Ziva had to laugh a little. It was clear that Abby wasn't backing down on making sure that Ziva planned her wedding to Tony.

"Abby, you know there is no way we can get married right now, not with some mad man on the loose." Ziva said softly, hoping to make sure she didn't hurt Abby's feelings.

"Ziva, Ziva, Ziva, silly Ziva." Abby said smirking. "You don't think that Gibbs is really going to let you postpone your wedding because of some other guy out there trying to hurt you, do you?"

Ziva winced, she knew Abby was right. Gibbs didn't believe in bending or changing your plans just because of some psycho that wanted to kill you. He would just increase security and make sure that things were as secure and protected as he could make them. "True." Ziva said softly. "But Tony hasn't mentioned anything about planning this wedding, Abby." Ziva said as her eyes met her friends. For so long she had thought she would never have any family, after all that her brother had done to the people at NCIS, taking away their friend, Kate, she didn't think they would ever accept her, but they had.

"Ziva, maybe you should bring it up. Maybe he thinks you aren't ready for a wedding now after what you went through, let him know you are." Abby said as she realized her friend was scared that Tony had changed his mind. It was clear that Ziva wasn't pregnant and she had thought for so long that the reason that Tony had wanted to marry her, was because they weren't sure if she was pregnant or not.

"No, that will only make Tony feel like a bear trapped in the woods." Ziva said and when she saw the wince on Abby's face she knew she had gotten that one wrong. "That's not the correct saying?"

"No, it's like a bear trapped in a cage. Bear's live in the woods Ziva, they wouldn't be trapped in them." Abby said with a smile on her face. Abby loved hearing how Ziva messed up some of the sayings and missed words or things, it was fun to Abby to be able to help someone learn something new, and it was actually funny sometimes, some of the things she said could really make you laugh.

"I sometimes think that Tony may be annoyed at some of the things I say. It's not easy, you know, with him being such a movie buff and loving to quote his movies and me not even knowing how to say real sayings. We are so different, I don't understand why he would want to marry me sometimes." Ziva said softly, letting out her real feelings.

"Because I love you." Tony said from the doorway.

"I think I am going to let you two talk. You let me know when you leave, so I can come help her plan that wedding, and before you leave, you two have better have set a date Tony." Abby said with a very firm look on her face, the look that she got when she meant business.

"Abby, you can't force someone…" Ziva stopped when Abby sent her the firm look that said be quiet and then gave a smirk of a smile to Tony before leaving the room.

"Why would she need to force me? I am the one who proposed, Ziva, that would mean that I really do want to get married." Tony said as he walked over and sat next to her at the table and looked at the stuff in front of her. "Abby can be a bit impatient, I will have to tell her that you aren't ready for a wedding."

"What makes you say that?" Ziva asked leaning back in her chair, frowning at him.

"Because you haven't brought up the wedding, or setting a date." Tony said leaning back in his own chair, frowning back at her in a mock frown.

"Neither have you." Ziva said waving her hand at him. "I know nothing about this sort of thing, you know that. I wasn't raised to know about weddings or anything girly, I have no idea what the steps are to plan one of these things."

Tony laughed out loud and then when he realized she was serious and she was really confused he stopped laughing. "Baby, you just set a date and then you plan for the things you want there, after you set a budget so you don't overspend or plan for things you can afford."

"That's not a problem. Father said that whatever I wanted I could have, he would just send me the money even if he can't come himself because it would be too dangerous." Ziva said shrugging.

"You didn't tell me that." Tony said arching an eyebrow.

"You never talk to me about the wedding, so I didn't see a reason to bring it up." Ziva said softly.

"Well let's set a date, let's get this thing going so you can become my wife." Tony said with a smile as he picked up her hand and gently kissed her palm.


He was not happy, he threw a knife at the photo of Anthony DiNozzo. He had finally managed to find a way to plant bugs around the NCIS offices, and the bug inside the conference room picked up the wedding conversation, so he thought he was going to marry and steal away Ziva David from him, did he? He thought he was going to be the father of her children. He thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with Ziva, well he could, but he was going to have a very short life! No one stole his Ziva, no one! He was going to have to make sure that he not only separated Ziva and this DiNozzo creep, but he needed to keep her away from everyone at NCIS, it just seemed like they were on this DiNozzo guys side, and that could be a problem once he started his plan to make sure that she didn't want him, ever again.

"Soon my Ziva, soon you are going to be with me and you won't want that American, you won't want him at all my love." He said as he walked over and kissed the photo of Ziva he had framed on his wall. He had already made one move, he had been inside their home while they were at work, and he had left them a present. He was going to make sure there was no wedding, if it was the last thing he did, he would make sure Ziva wanted nothing to do with this DiNozzo and the NCIS family she had made for herself. "Soon my love." He murmured again, an evil grin on his face.